If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.