One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.