You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
“Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.”
“Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.”