“Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.”

“Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!

But leave me a little love.”

“If you don't modernize, leave. You're poor? Son of a whore! Suffer through hardship and hunger. I don't care.”

“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”

“You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.”

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”

“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”

“Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.”

“If you gaze at a single leaf on a single tree, you do not see the other leaves. If you face the tree with no intention and do not fix your eyes on a single leaf, then you will see all the many leaves. If your mind is preoccupied with one leaf, you do not see the others, if you do not set your attention on one; you will see hundreds and thousands of leaves.”