Love is better than any weapon

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.