It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.