“Rereading, we find a new book”

“Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully”

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

“Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?”

“Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.”

“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).”

“The value is in the worth, not in the number.”

“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.”

“When a persons debt increases a lot, at first he will feel he wants to pay it all back, later he will think, Why give back? That spoils from within. We should not sign from within.”

“The temptation to spend money increases as a persons opportunities increase.”

“When a person’s debt increases a lot, at first he will feel he wants to pay it all back, later he will think, ‘Why give back?’ That spoils from within. We should not sign from within.”