198 Quotes by Chaim Potok

An artist is a person first.

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.

...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed,' my father said softly.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.

Great artists make the entire world their home.