Reading Clausewitz makes you take your own thoughts a little less seriously.

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.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

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

I'm mad about good books, can't get my fill .