“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

“The way to control circumstances is to control the forces within yourself to make a greater man of yourself, and as you become greater and more competent, you will naturally gravitate into better circumstances. In this connection, we should remember that like attracts like. If you want that which is better, make yourself better. If you want to realize the ideal, make yourself more ideal. If you want better friends, make yourself a better friend. If you want to associate with people of worth, make yourself more worthy. If you want to meet that which is agreeable, make yourself more agreeable. If you want to enter conditions and circumstances that are more pleasing, make yourself more pleasing. In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.”

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

“Would you take better care of yourself
Would you be kinder to yourself
Would you be more forgiving of your human imperfections
If you realized your best friend was yourself”

“The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you'll go.”

“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

“Why don't you go and take some more drugs, you druggie?”

“The more you read and write, the better you think and live.”