We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.
"Vedn'zh se sp'nakh i padnakh - prod'lzhi tia. - Chakakh go kakto vinagi na avtobusnata spirka pred paviliona, no toi zak'snia, i kogato se zadade, avtobus't veche tr'gvashe. Spusnakhme se da go gonim, no az padnakh i si navekhnakh glezena. A toi vika: "Gorkoto meche-buboleche". Zadeto padnakh, de. Gorkoto meche-buboleche, kazva. Gospodi, kak'v mil beshe. - A Liu niama li chuvstvo za khumor? - Kakvo? - Kazvam, Liu niama li chuvstvo za khumor? - Diavol znae. Mozhe i da ima. Smee se, kato gleda karikaturi i razni takiva."
A man is a man is a man. His family threatened, his beliefs attacked, his way of life destroyed, his whole world coming to an end - he will kill. Make no mistake. He won't let the new order roll over him without a struggle.
"Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it's pure accident. So many people have had the whole course of their lives changed by something perfectly simple like, let's say, crossing the street at one point instead of another." "Yes, yes, yes, I know," Stenham said with exaggerated weariness. "As far as I'm concerned that's just as boring, and a lot more false, by the way. The point I'm trying to make is that he loves his world of Koranic law because it's his, and at the same time he hates it because his intuition tells him it's at the end of its rope. He can't expect anything more from it. And our world, he hates that too, just on general principles, and yet it's his only hope, the only way out--if there is one for him personally, which I doubt."
..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.
.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.