The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.