Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.