Books

Dr. Suess

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

Oscar Wilde

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

Fran Lewbowitz

"Think before you speak. Read before you think."

John Steinbeck, from East of Eden

"No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us."

Walter Isaacson, Ben Franklin

"Traveling was...both a source of knowledge and a pleasure. He believed that the world was a book, and those who did not travel read only one page."

Jim Mattis, in Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

"If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you."