The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.