“Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.”

“Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.”

“Because, you see, he was not a person. He was a fish, which is what he had been all along. As a big fish, he could only eat smaller fish”

“Using a fisherman's net with large holes will only catch big fish; letting the smaller ones escape unharmed. It is a lot like life: focusing only on one golden opportunity lets the smaller ones slip away unnoticed. However, starting small will catch larger opportunities over time.”

“Our ordinary mind always tried to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but this is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”

“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”