“Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.”
“One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.”
“A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned”
“She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud. Having to take care of her sister’s child had sent her love away and there had been no one since. She had learned not to lose control of her feelings again.”
“He never forgot what he learned and that was to love is to destroy and to be love is to be the one destroyed.”
“The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.”