Chaim Potok

“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal rebel.”

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.”

“Something that is yours forever is never precious.”

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.”

“If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.”

“Human beings don't live forever... We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity.”

“A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.”

“You can't make yourself be a writer, you can only let yourself be a writer.”

“An artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.”

“Everything of value has its price.”

“It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.”

“All beginnings are hard.”

“One learns of the pain of others by suffering one's own pain.”

“A man's life is only as important as the cause he serves.”

“What I do is me, for that I came.”

“Art is a rebellion against the void...an attempt to carve order out of chaos.”

“I learned a long time ago that a person can't live in two worlds. You can be a rabbi or you can be a writer. You can't be both.”

“Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul.”