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

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

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.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.