A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.