“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
“Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”
“If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.”
“In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.”
“It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..”
“Нито един човек не е тъй велик като своите идеи.”
“Ոչինչ զարյացած մարդու համար այնքան տհաճ չէ, որքան այն, երբ նրա զայրույթին պատասխանում են լրիվ անտարբերությամբ։”
“I could get a job in an advertising agency. I’ll write copy telling people to eat more cornflakes and smoke more and more cigarettes and buy more refrigerators and automobiles, until they explode with happiness.”
“Your enemies still figure into God’s plan. Their pulse is proof: God hasn’t given up on them. They may be out of God’s will, but not out of his reach. You honor God when you see them, not as his failures, but as his projects.”
“Your mistake, indeed the mistake of your inherently finite senses, is to view the universe as an extension of yourself. You expect that, like you, it should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. but what you fail to understand is that everything you consider to be you, except for that rather silly imaginary part you call consciousness, is merely bits and pieces borrowed from the universe, and to the universe it will all return. You had no beginning, and you will have no ending. Everything that is you has always been and will always be.”
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