"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."

"To conquer fear is to realize that the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?"

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed."

"Everybody is entertained to death."

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."