For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.