You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Love is God's shadow as He strolls through the universe.

Great is the Lord. He is mighty and powerful.

What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.

I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.