"The world is a wheel always turning " philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher."

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

You won’t shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character, " I say quietly. "They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.

Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.

Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

John you are not being open with me

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.