N.H. Kleinbaum

“I stand on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly force ourselves to look at things differently.

“If you’re sure about something,” he said as they slowly returned to their seats, “force yourself to think about it another way, even if you know it’s wrong or silly. When you read, don’t consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.

“You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.

What it demonstrates is how difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others.

Lads, there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular.

ver heard of him. Sorry.”

“Say, Steve,”

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old time is still a flying:

And this same flower that smiles today,

Tomorrow will be dying.”

Either you will succumb to the will of academic hoi polloi, and the fruit will die on the vine—or you will triumph as individuals.

And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.’

But the most wonderful love,

the Love of all loves,

Even greater than the love for Mother,

Is the infinite, tenderest, passionate love,

Of one dead drunk for another.