“The world would become better offIf people tried to become better.And people would become betterIf they stopped trying to become better off.”

“Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods”

“If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.”

“Gods become myths when people stop believin’ in them.”

“The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.”

“Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.”

“If you became blind," I said, "if you were used to finding your way around a house and then, suddenly, one day had an accident--was attacked or something--and became blind, only then would you actually notice the furniture. It would always have been there, but you would never have been aware of it, you would just have gone around it. Only when something becomes hard to cope with do you see it. That's how you become aware of time--when it becomes hard to cope with.”