There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

Life is a bag full of uncertainties for everyone.

I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.