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“Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.”
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“I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.”
Source : "Portrait of the artist: Marcus Brigstocke, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2007. 
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“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”
Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4”, Jazzybee Verlag
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“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
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“Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.”
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“Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.”
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“I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.”
Source : 'Lines on his Pension'; attributed
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“It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.”
Source : Jewish Chronicle (p. 22), October 11, 2013.
