Today a reader, tomorrow a reader.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

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