Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

War settles nothing.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

My music is a luxury.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Nothing endures but change.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.