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The reason there’s no oneness and no harmony in the church is because the believers don’t habitually walk in the light and they don’t constantly allow God’s light (knowledge) to shine in them.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record. A lot of people forget that.

Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

Embrace your imperfections. We are not machines.

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.

The error that many vegans make is forgetting that our food has novelty value. Non-vegans think our food is awful, but are fascinated by the prospect of something vegan being delicious. They want to disprove it.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.