When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.8

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

They do not know what they are doing and do not have the ability to distance themselves from it so they can see it for what it is. That is the power of "culture.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

I feel better! I feel! I feel!" until he quit that too and said quietly, looking at the familiar wall, the familiar twin door through which he was about to pass, with tragic and passive clairvoyance: "Something is going to happen to me.

I'm warning you. I'm going to get waxy. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else--- Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?