When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of na…

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems... they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as …