"The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that."

-- Paul Farmer

#Children Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Haiti Quotes

“When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?”
“What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1970). “Zen and Zen Classics: Twenty-five Zen essays”
“I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.”
“Phyllis Diller came through a mine field of male comedians when she arrived on the comedy scene and she defused them all. She won her place in the Hall of Comedy as the First Lady. I will miss her.”
“God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.”
“If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.”

Source : "What is Reality?". BBC Horizons, January 17, 2011.
“The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.”
“Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.”

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