“Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life.”

— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life (2016)

About Pat Conroy

1945 – 2016

American novelist, author of "The Prince of Tides".

“Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me.”

“Always believe in things and people that bring you pleasure.”

“I've never had anybody's approval, so I've learned to live without it.”

“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.”

“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”

“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”