What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.