“Start reading, and especially read the kinds of books that will help you unleash your inner potential.”

The more you know the less you need to say.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.

Don’t shortchange yourself when it comes to investing in your own better future.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

I used to blame everything outside of me for my lack of progress until I found that my problem was inside.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.