"People make their own luck."

“Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.”

“Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.”

“Honor does not have to be defended.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.142, Macmillan

“Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.”

“Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.”

“If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?”

“My parents were adherents of the Baha'i faith, which is sort of, I can't think of the best way to describe it, but it sort of has the same relationship to Islam that Christianity has to Judaism, and it's a kind of a universalist creed and missionaries aren't paid. You're essentially expected to go out and find a job and do your own thing, and in your spare time spread the faith, and so that was the driving force of us going overseas.”

“Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together”