“We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.”

“This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.”

“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.”

“We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs.”

“The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.”

“You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.”