Henry Winkler Quotes

Read books. They are good for us.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

Reading is important.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

Libraries raised me.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Reading is a huge part of life.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Books always help.