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

No man is a devil in his own mind.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.