When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.