“His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.”

“Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.”

“Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.”

“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”

“The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further: it was then that I called to you for the first time, and you would not come.”