Mortimer Adler

"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. "

"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. "

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. "

"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. "