What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.