In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

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.

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.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it