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.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

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

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.