When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.