“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Every wall is a door.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

A man is known by his books, his friends and the mistakes he admits.

I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

You can learn investing by reading books.

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!