Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Just because you're scarred for life doesn't mean you should be scared to live.

Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.