Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.