"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"