Pi Patel

"A tiger's life in the wild is not as nice as it sounds."

"I have decided to speak of them only as if I were looking at them from a great distance."

"We are always hungry. This is the reason we pray before eating."

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

"I missed love. I missed beauty."

"Every religion has discipline as a key component."

"Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane."

"I'm a person who believes the things that are good for you should also taste good."

"Religion is a house with many rooms."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

"I am a better person because of my suffering."

"The ship sank. I'm here. My story has a happy ending."

"I had to stop the what-iffing."

"Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love."

"My life is nothing but an illustration and a demonstration of the truth of religion."

"The only life I remember is the one on the lifeboat."

"I will die rather than change my story."

"I've been flying above the clouds and I have read the signs in the sky."

"The presence of God is the highest blessing."

"I have been to paradise and I have tasted fruit that no man has tasted before."

"What is the purpose of living if not to strive after the ultimate meaning of it all?"

"You must take life as it happens, but you should try to make it the life you want."

"A place of rest, a refuge, a place of truth."

"Love is a quality, not a quantity."

"I had been happy, I had been sad, I had been content, I had been angry."

"The one thing I did not want to do was remember Richard Parker."

"Zoology can explain the behavior of animals, but it cannot explain myself."

"Belief is a gift I do not take for granted."

"I have seen the face of God and I have been transformed."

"My suffering left me sad and gloomy, shutting out the light."