Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.