Andrew Cvercko

“You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

“Each day forty thousand children die of hunger. The superpowers now have more than fifty thousand nuclear warheads, enough to destroy our planet many times. Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“There was the hills, an' there was me, an' we wasn't separate no more. We was one thing. An' that one thing was holy.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“There is no door to God through dope; that is a lie peddled by the unscrupulous.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Valis Trilogy: The Complete Collection of Philip K. Dick's Award-Winning VALIS Series