Much of command is the ability to take command.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

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

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.