There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. Alexis de Tocqueville 

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away, Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry…Emily Dickinson

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

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.  Oscar Wilde

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.Mortimer Adler

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.Carrie Underwood

There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house.  Joe Ryan

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.  From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.  Gilbert Highet

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.Katie Couric