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

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.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.

My future is one I must make myself.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.