When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

It is only God who can fill our void.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Silence is victory and patience is glory.Let silence speak our identityand let patience keep our dignity.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

His moral lectureblazed with hate.What could have driven a child that far?

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.