The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.