Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Celebration is a confrontation giving attention to the transcendent meaning of ones actions.

Self respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

When I was young I used to admire intelligent people as I grow older I admire kind people.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a welth of information, but to face sacred moments.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

We worship God through our questions.

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

I am open, free and joyful.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

I play very, very emotional. That's just my style.

When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

The church must always show compassion, always.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen because then she never gets out of there.

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.