C. S. Lewis Quotes

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

Drink deeply from good books.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Man is what he reads.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

I read books by other coaches all the time.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

I try to read as much as I can.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.