It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.