What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.