那些日子一点儿都不浪漫。我没有宿舍，只能睡在朋友房间的地板上。我去退还可乐瓶，用那五分钱的押金来买吃的。每个星期天晚上我都要走七英里，到城那头的黑尔-科里施纳礼拜堂去，吃每周才能享用一次的美餐。我喜欢这样。我凭着好奇心和直觉所干的这些事情，有许多后来都证明是无价之宝。
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
释义：学问不论年长年幼，应该以某一方面擅长的人为师。学无先后，达者为师，体现了学问应该是一个开放的、无大小之分的领域，重在能力而非地位或者身份。
【译文】树应该遗憾自己的枝上长不出叶子，不要抱怨太阳偏心眼。人的一切都是命中注定的，一星半点也由不得自己。
我想成为那个激励你的女孩，而你又激励着我。
美德即使被压迫，依然是美德。