Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate."

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned