Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

People with heavy physical vibrations rule the world.

It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

A smile is a blue sky where the mind can fly.

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

so little of what anything means comes through words.

Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage 'Thou art all' and 'Thy will be done'.

The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment