198 Quotes by Chaim Potok

Good-bye, Davita. Be discontented with the world. But be respectful at the same time.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn’t make a difference you will make it make a difference.

Something that is yours forever is never precious.

All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we’re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

On one of the walls of his office hung his undergraduate degree from Columbia and his law degree from the Harvard School of Law.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul.

All a man has in the world is the now, the day and the hour where he is, because tomorrow is an entirely different world.

Go to sleep, Asher. You’ve had a difficult day.” “A difficult day? I didn’t do a thing all day!” “For you, my husband, that is the most difficult kind of day you can have.

I cannot have gone through what I went through and have lost what I lost if it’s all meaningless.