John Dickey

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.