For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become..

Man cannot live by profit alone..

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a w….

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it..

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being..

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it..

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind..

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deser….

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ….

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are….

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on ….

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the….

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win..

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?.

To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it ….

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whethe….

There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world ….

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world..

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless..

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first..

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black..