“There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more...”

“Squashed behind The Cloud of Unknowing we discovered a pocket-size spiral notebook with a day-by-day account of the time Justin had stayed with her and her husband after Tommys death. The writing w...”

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”

“Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.”

“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.”

“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”