"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

“My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.”

“Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?”

Source : "Powell speaks with forked tongue" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2003.

“The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.”

“Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!”

“Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.”

“Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.”

“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”

Source : Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.212, Grove Press

“I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.”