The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

I am mentally bifocal.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.