The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.