“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”
“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
“My father taught me the most important thing about wisdom—that I was going to have to acquire it from other people. So without teaching me, he taught me how to learn from others.”
“Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) wasthat there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoymentof life and people”
“He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.”
“stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, courage teach me to be shy... because it's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball.”