I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.