Quotes on reading from President Hinckley

"I know of no other practice which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn." (Stand A Little Taller)

"It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the great of the earth, counsel with the wise of all time, look into the unlived days with prophets. . . . From the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way. . . . To become acquainted with real nobility as it walks the pages of history and science and literature is to strengthen character and develop life in its finer meanings" (Millennial Star, Dec. 21, 1937).

Even though some of you may be fully occupied with families and have little time for other things at this stage of your lives, you can enlarge your minds and broaden your understanding through the reading of good books....How marvelous a thing is a good book!  How stimulating to read and share with a great writer thoughts that build and strengthen and broaden one's horizon! ("Rise to the Stature of the Divine within You," Ensign, Nov., 1989, pg. 97)

“There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.” (Teaching of Gordon B. Hinckley)