If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.