“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

“Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.”

“...how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.”

“Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.”

“White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.”

“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”