Lukas Warner

“I judge people by their own principles—not by my own.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Ah, so?!’ Ivan said, turning around with a wild and hunted look. ‘Well, then… Goodbye!’ And he rushed head first into the windowblind.

The crash was rather forceful, but the glass behind the blind gave no crack, and in an instant Ivan Nikolaevich was struggling in the hands of the orderlies. He gasped, tried to bite, shouted:

‘So that’s the sort of windows you’ve got here!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“All men die, but that not all men die whining”
― Marcus Aurelius

“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude