Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

A room without books is a body without soul

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.