"Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again."
"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."
"The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low."
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"
"Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."