A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

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

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.