A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

We write to make sense of it all.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.