I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say…

No man is the wiser for his learning.

'Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can; I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.'

The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.