“It's you and the students against ignorance.”

“The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin -nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.”

“Life is war.”

“You can't sell people a new idea backed only by your authority. You have to have respect for the lives the people have led to this point and begin with them there; their experiences have led them to their assumptions and conceptions. As you identify and legitimate those experiences, you can help people identify their own primary needs in society. Then they can begin to imagine other people as having parallel needs.”

“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.' The spoken word reveals, upon reflection, that to which its speakers first chose to listen, then ponder, then live by.”

“Subconsciously he knew why it was happening, but a truth suppressed is a reality ignored.”

“If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.”