“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”

“When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.”

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

“It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.”

“A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.”

“Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.”

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”

“The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Re...”

“But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”