“Transformation is often more about UNLEARNING than learning.”

“Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.”

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”

“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”

“The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.”

“Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.”

“A work on tidal theory… led me to Lagrange's Mécanique analytique and thereby I returned to those ideas of analysis. All the developments in that work were transformed through the principles of the new analysis in such a simple way that the calculations often came out more than ten times shorter than in Lagrange's work.”

“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.”

“What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?”

“There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.”