The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.