When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.