Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.