I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

There are no national frontiers to learning.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance-wheel of the social machinery.