Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

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.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

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