I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.