I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

The most interesting art is the art that doesn’t give you all the answers.

每个人都是自己的上苍。如果你自己都放弃自己，还有谁会救你？强者自救，圣者渡人。

陌生人是群体本身的一个元素，与穷人和各种“内部敌人”并无不同——一个在群体中的成员身份既涉及在其外部又涉及面对它的元素。