Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.

Data about an innovative idea is rarely crystal clear.