It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"?

A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

Few great men could pass personnel.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.