Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.