If they're friends, then they've got your back . . . whether you're there or not. Friends won't "forget" about you.

True. The school admin decided that a girls clothes were more important than her education.

It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?

What if . . . What if I am stupid? Like people say?

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.

Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.