Ben Carson on reading

We don’t have to explain miracles; all we have to do is accept them.

What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain1835–1910

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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