Tom Quinn

“It's not years nor days, but the mind, that determines that we've lived enough.”
― Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

“Just as with storytelling, so with life: it's important how well it is done, not how long.”
― Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

“(and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

“Place no dependence on your own genius, even if you possess it. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate talents, industry will supply their deficiency--nothing is denied to well directed labor; nothing is obtained without it.”
― Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine