After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When [an episcopal priest] prayed for my recovery, I choked up and wept. The only prayer I knew word for word was the Pater Noster. On that day and in the days after it, I found myself repeating the Lord's Prayer, again and again, and meaning every word of it. Quite suddenly, when I was awake one night, a light dawned on me, and I realized what had happened... After many years of affirming God's existence and trying to give adequate reasons for that affirmation, I found myself believing in God.

To every journey in life, how you begin matters much but who and what the journey makes you become in the end matters much more.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.