Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.