I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.

The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.