You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.

Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.