The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

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.