The document contains over 30 quotes from various authors about the importance and joy of reading. Many of the quotes discuss how reading can expand one's mind and world, and how it is important to make time for reading to avoid self-imposed ignorance. Several quotes also highlight how reading as a child can help create lifelong readers and potentially future leaders.

1. “ We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ” ~ B.F. Skinner

2. “ The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. ” ~ B.B. King

3. “ We read to know we are not alone. ” - C.S. Lewis

4. “ When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. ” - Christopher Morley

5. “ No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ” - Confucius

6. “ Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ” - Edmund Burke

7. “ Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ” - Emilie Buchwald

8. “ Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ. ” - Fortune

9. “ I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ” - Groucho Marx

10. “ If you can read this, thank a teacher. ” ~ Anonymous

11. “ Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. ” - Harry S. Truman

12. “ Never judge a book by its movie. ” - J.W. Eagan

13. “ There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. ” - Jacqueline Kennedy

14. “ A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ” - Jerry Seinfield

15. “ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ” - Joseph Brodsky

16. “ A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance. ” - Lyndon Baines Johnson

17. “ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” - Margaret Fuller

18. “ The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read. ” - Mark Twain

19. “ Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. ” - Mason Cooley

20. “ Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ” - Maya Angelou

21. “ A man is known by the books he reads. ” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

22. “ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ” - Richard Steele

23. “ Choose an author as you choose a friend. ” - Sir Christopher Wren

24. “ I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ” - William Phelps

25. “ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” - W. Fusselman

26. “ So many books, so little time. ” - Frank Zappa

27. “ Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. ” - Groucho Marx

28. “ A room without books is like a body without a soul. ” - Cicero

29. “ A house without books is like a room without windows. ” - Horace Mann

30. “ Books may well be the only true magic.” - Alice Hoffman

31. “ Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ” - Anna Quindlen

32. “ Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

33. “ There is no friend as loyal as a book. ” - Ernest Hemingway

34. “ Books, the children of the brain. ” - Jonathan Swift

35. “ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” - W. Fusselman

36. “ The world was hers for the reading. ” - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

37. “ There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more.” -Steven Morrissey