Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
“Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.”
“A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.”