The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

The moon shows the truth of things.

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!

Be less than what you are so that you can become more.

I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.