“Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”

“I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.”

“I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more...”

“It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.”

“Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?”

“You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”