In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, ….

[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All the….

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for a….

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read….

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads..

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intoler….

The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all the time. I'm alway….

You learn by reading but understand by LOVE..

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress..

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method..

I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell….

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge..

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.

I remember reading an article about this idea of borderline personality disorder, which is reality producers try the find people who are sort of flam….

...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alon….

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between..

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asse….

That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the total miracle of birth, an….

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always p….

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the s….