We're only here for one reason: to wake up... To realize yourself doesn't mean you are perfect as a human being. It means you are willing to bear the imperfections and not sell out to them.

The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them.

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?