If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.
By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.
I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it.
I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.
There is a world which I alone rule, but it ends at my fingertips.