"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?" The Analects of Confucius

If you're going through hell, keep going. Never Give In!

For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fault, but was owing to my own gross ignorance, but this thing was not a joke or a pastime with me, but the business of my life, and I was at last forced, willy-nilly, to the conclusion that these questions of mine were the only legitimate questions underlying all knowledge, and that it was not I that was in fault in putting them, but science in pretending to have an answer for them. A Confession

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept