A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.
It takes a lot of doing to die.
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
The difference between rich and poor... is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
There's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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