A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.