People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

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

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.