Pi Patel

"And so it goes with faith; you don't think your way into it or analyze it."

"I was afraid not for myself but for Richard Parker."

"My life is my own, and I will direct it as I see fit."

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others, it has the feet to hasten to the poor."

"Religion is like mathematics. There are different ways to reach the same answer."

"Every religion is true one way or another."

"Animals don't have beliefs. They simply act."

"I believe in all religions, and I practice all of them."

"I became a vegetarian not out of morality but sensibility."

"I am a cheerful person, but with a melancholic bent."

"Words like heaven and hell, faith and despair, soul and God, I need them even if I cannot imagine them."

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no?"

"Survival is a matter of taking things one day at a time."

"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go."

"Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust."

"Even zebras are beautiful, seen in the right light."

"My suffering left me sad and gloomy."

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

"Life is nothing like the books. It is so much less dramatic, so much more strange."

"I prayed like a man in the desert."

"The sea is not a miracle. It is hard and demanding."

"Every religion is true one way or another."

"I had to keep going. I had to survive."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves."

"The mind is a strange thing, master of illusions."

"Animals are not cruel. They are entirely reasonable."

"I discovered that I could make Richard Parker happy."

"Fear can keep you alive."

"What is the purpose of my existence if not to be a witness to creation?"

"A thing is beautiful when it brings you joy."