"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength."

"What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach."

"When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon."

"Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor."

"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."

"I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never."

"I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool."

"Son, do you know how love should be begun?" The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old man leaned closer and whispered: "A tree. A rock. A cloud."

"There was a hollow in her chest, but at the bottom of this emptiness a heavy weight pressed down and bruised her stomach, so that she felt sick."

"You mind Ralph," she called back to Bubber. "Mind the gnats don't sit on his eyelids."

"You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real."

"Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty."

"The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen."

"But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all."

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative."

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

"And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray."

"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."

"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."

"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew."

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."