A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.