Richard > Richard's Quotes

“Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“He said, "Yefrem! Stop griping. Take this book and read it."
Yefrem stopped short, and looked at it dully.
"What for? Why read, when we'll all be dead soon?"
Ogloyed's scar twitched.
"That's exactly why you have to hurry, because you'll soon be dead.”
― Solzhenitsyn A.

“Our lives are involved with one another...No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one is saved alone. The lives of others continually spill over into mine: in what I think, say, do and achieve. And conversely, my life spills over into that of others, for better or for worse. So my prayer for another is not something extraneous to that person. ...In the interconnectedness of Being...It is never too late to touch the heart of another, nor is it ever in vain.”
― Benedict XVI

“Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina