"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"I am not interested in the average. I am interested in the extreme."

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

Music is my life and also my death.

当我们本应更明智地保护自己免受其害时，纯真总是默默地呼唤保护：纯真就像一个失去了铃铛的哑巴麻风病人，漫游世界，无意伤害。