About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love—because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.

Not one word to stop me from doing something I shouldn't? 'No. By doing what you shouldn't, you will realize it yourself. As I said in the restaurant, the light in your soul is greater than the darkness. But for this you must go all the way to the end of the game.

But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.

When god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but to keep himself from the evil one.