Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

But a man needs company.

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

But 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. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.