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“Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...”
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“I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
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“I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.”
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“Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.”
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“If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.”
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“Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.”
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“Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.”
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“Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.”
Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.23, University of Chicago Press
