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

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

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.

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.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.