“There is no other way of guarding oneself from flatterers except letting men understand that to tell you the truth does not offend you.” The Prince

“The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t read.” The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. The Innocents Abroad

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself. The Karamazov Brothers