To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
I'm a hopeless romantic and I think that's what makes my heart beat.
The details are not the details. They make the design.
The will to learn is an intrinsic motive, one that finds both its source and its reward in its own exercise.