If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

I'm on a roller coaster which only goes up my friend

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.