Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

We only understand the true love of our lives when we bound ourself within the boundries of right and wrong.

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.

Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Great times are great softeners

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.