You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you.""You already hit him with a car.

Praying is the time to ask and meditating is the time to listen.

Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven it can count. They have made an observation. They are very clever birds.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.