“The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.” Republic

The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone. Don Quixote

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs. Man's Search For Meaning