“The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.”

“I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?”

“Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense.”

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

“The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.”

“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.”

“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.”

“A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.”

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.”