Mathias Mueller

“Their opinions are not your oxygen. They should only fan your fucking flames.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Auschwitz was a living nightmare, a place of unimaginable horrors. But I survived because I owed it to my friend Kurt to survive, to live another day so that I might see him again. Having even just one good friend means that the world takes on new meaning. One good friend can be your entire world.

This, more than the food we shared or the warm clothes or the medicine, was the most important thing. The best balm for the soul is friendship. And with that friendship, we could do the impossible.”
― Eddie Jaku

“Success should always call for showing greater kindness, generosity, and justice; only people lost in the darkness treat it as an occassion for greater greed.”
― Cyrus the Great

“Of course I deprecate war,” he wrote, “but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.”
― Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President