Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.