“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”

“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..”

“But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.”

“If you choose to live only in the world as you find it, you surrender too much.”

“You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?”

“The sand in the hourglass flows only one way. Don’t waste precious time chasing someone else’s definition of success. Live your life with purpose now. Look for the things that inspire you, trouble you, make you feel most alive, and trust in those things to shape your future. They will give you all your heart could ever wish for.”