“It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.”
“The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.”
“Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.”
“The quickest way to the top, is getting off your bottom”
“Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?”
“Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”