Times of stress throughout my life have led me to turn, or return, to the physical sciences, a world where there is no life, but also no death --- Oliver Sacks<p>Each one of here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don&#x27;t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding --- A River Runs Through It<p>Even though you can&#x27;t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That&#x27;s morality, that&#x27;s religion. That&#x27;s art. That&#x27;s life --- (read somewhere)<p>On education ---<p>&quot;And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.&quot;<p>&quot;Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world&quot;