Books are absent teachers.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Books are absent teachers.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.