Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

If you sing a song, any brokenness shall heal.

Forget yourself. Live for others. You will find your bliss.

The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.

As the hero learns, readers learn too.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.