“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.”
“Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.”
“What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!""And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!”
“A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.”