I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.