“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn”

“I am one who has been acquainted with the night”

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”

“For I have had too muchOf apple-picking:I am overtiredOf the great harvest I myself desired.”

“I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.”

“I could give all to Time except -- exceptWhat I myself have held. But why declareThe things forbidden that while the Customs sleptI have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,And what I would not part with I have kept.”