To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

They lay together in a sheltered place among the ruins of Brasilia while deathbeams from Chinese EMVs played like blue searchlights on broken ceramic walls.

Brothers the bible never says that you should live with your mother, it says leave your mother and father and unite with your wife.

It is the adventure and uncertainties of the journey that makes life so beautiful and interesting.

The unspiritual is a slave to sin.

Your dreams don’t stop being dreams because of circumstances.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.

All that matters is that you keep going no matter what

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.