“Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.”
“The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn”
“When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.”
“You change yourself in this world (indeed, if it comes from outside yourself it can be taken away). What other people --or other entities-- can do is inspire you; they can plant seeds of inspiration. If the soil isn't receptive, the seed dies, the idea is lost, as there was no place for inspiration to take hold.”
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”