“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

Books. Cats. Life is good.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

In my end is my beginning.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

The more you know the less you need to say.