You can own a billion books and still be ignorant.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Choosing to buy a particular book over others only or mainly because it is the cheapest is excusable only if you are learning to read.

Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.