Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

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.

If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.

Desire to know God.

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.

For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!

To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

To call me a woman is very nice.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.