The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.