I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

I don't fear what hides in the darkness. I fear what hides in the light.

When you discover the gift inside you, you have to submit yourself to the gift and improve it

She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He has helped her learn to love herself for what she is.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.