“Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world”

“If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?”

“ A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.”

“It is said that the Messiah will come at the end of the world." "But it was not the end of the world," Grandfather said. "It was. He just did not come." "Why did he not come?" "This was the lesson we learned from everything that happened - there is no God. It took all of the hidden faces for Him to prove this to us." "What if it was a challenge of your faith?" I said. "I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this." "What if it was not in his power?" "I could not believe in a God that could not stop what happened." "What if it was man and not God that did all of this?" "I do not believe in man, either.”

“I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's life consists in proving to himself every minute that he's a man and not a piano key. And man will keep proving it and paying for it with his own skin; he will turn into a troglodyte if need be. And, since this is so, I cannot help rejoicing that things are still the way they are and that, for the time being, nobody knows worth a damn what determines our desires.”

“I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”