“One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the truth, even when it pains us.”

“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”

“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”

“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.”

“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”

“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”