Reading

When my daughter Hope was little, I told her a bedtime story every night. I read her the usual books— Goodnight Moon and Winnie-the-Pooh —but her favorite stories were the “made-up ones.” Th...

Read any study on human satisfaction and you will see the paramount role of relationships with others. And yet, so many of us readily exchange friendship and community for success and achievement, onl...

After I graduated from seminary, I stopped reading the Bible. It’s been said that for all the gain that comes from dissecting a frog, all the hands-on knowledge one amasses from cutting out the organs...

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains o...

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

The exiled Niccolo Machiavelli actually changed into his best clothes to enter into his nightly reading conversation with the ancients.

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

We have never lived enough. Our experience is, without fiction, too confined and too parochial. Literature extends it, making us reflect and feel about what might otherwise be too distant for feeling....

Researchers used data on 3,635 people over 50 participating in a larger health study who had answered questions about reading. The scientists divided the sample into three groups: those who read no b...

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.