I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

Live brightly.

Will you shed your tears for the souls of the nations?

People are so codified - it's sad.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.