“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.”

“Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.”

“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”

“The most difficult jobs look easy until you try to do them.”

“I didn't get the point", said Pig. "That's because you've got four pounds of provolone where most people got brains!", Mark shouted, shaking his fist. "This is college, you dumb bastard. This is a place where you're supposed to argue and learn and get pissed off. You don't go around choking your buddies just because they don't happen to believe what you believe.”

“It can be… difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form… most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.”

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”

“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

“Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?”