[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

If you want to feel at home, stay home.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.