Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”

If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.