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 say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

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.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

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.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

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.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

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