To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr.Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.

Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

I was determined to move forward.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

…nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.

Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch doesn’t work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist.