Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. - Louis L'Amour

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

"It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This — " I held out my hands " — this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it."