"The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone."

I'm not perfect, but I'm always me.

And if you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading. And a big chunk of the rest of the time is spent talking one on one either on the telephone or personally with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him. In other words, it looks quite academic, all this worldly success.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second-best time is now.

Life is a series of choices, and the hardest ones are the ones that matter.