“Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself.”

“Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?”

“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”

“Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.”

“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

“Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.”

“The voice of justice must shout loudly for justice itself. It doesn't matter whether he is religious or not religious! It doesn't matter whether he is a minority or a majority!”

“I’m afraid I’m not a convert or anything. I still see the same blind cosmos governed by the same blind laws. But suddenly it matters. It matters terribly, and means something. What, I haven’t figured out yet. I probably never will. But I have a reason for living, or for dying if need be. Maybe that’s the whole purpose of life: purpose itself. I can’t say. But I expect to enjoy the world a lot more.”

“Would you maybe / Come dancing with me / 'Cos to me it doesn't matter if your hopes and dreams are shattered”

“I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.”