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.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

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.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.