I am a Catholic.
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
