Basel Musharbash

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”
― Marian Wright Edelman

“Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.”
― Winston Churchill