"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."