"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves." E. M. Forster "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." Mark Twain "Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." G. M. Trevelyan "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Sir Richard Steele "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." John Locke 'The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." Theodore Parker "I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." Marx Groucho - from Amzon