If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.