“I am a part of everything that I have read.”

With self discipline most anything is possible.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.

Patriotism means to stand by the country.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.