It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.