Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

I never write about a place I don't know.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing when I was 16.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.