Man makes religion; religion does not make man.

让我们感谢那些使我们快乐的人，他们是让我们的灵魂绽放的迷人园丁。

I like the idea that every life has its own rhythm, that people are not simply points moving through time.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Overfishing is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. We must adhere to scientific fishing and give the ocean time to recover.

我们能种植的最宝贵作物是农民与消费者之间的信任。