To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

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.