For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

I want to be a destroyer that can save people.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.