Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)