"When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking."

“I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.”

“Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.”

“Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.”

“Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.149, Penguin

“What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?”

“I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.”

“I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.”

Source : "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

“I am thrilled to see my genome.”