Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Dr. Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it can't be that because I didn't eat any cheese last week.

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan