One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.