M. Kushner Quotes
The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.
New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.
A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.
Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.
The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.
There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.
Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.
We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.
Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.
. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.
God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.
