Life of Pi

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

"I had to stop the what-iffing."

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

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

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

"Religion is a house with many rooms."

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

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

"Every religion has discipline as a key component."

"I missed love. I missed beauty."

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

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

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

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

"The sea was angry that day, my friends. But I was calm."

"Faith is important to the whole experience. It is by having faith that you are able to endure hardship."

"I have other things on my mind. My dead."

"You can't help but admire the tremendous effort that he puts into each stroke."

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

"I do not wish to move on. I wish to rest with Richard Parker."

"Despair is only the beginning of recovery."

"I wanted to see an animal up close. And I got what I wished for, but not in the way I imagined."

"An animal that deals with a human is touched by humanity in a profound way a human himself would recognize."

"My suffering left me sad and gloomy. Physical uneasiness grieved me. I was a faithful prisoner to my past."

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

"I have nothing to say of my working life, only that God has given me a life, and I must live it."

"It is often said that the mind is a fortress. But that is wrong. The mind is a storm, a tempest, a roiling sea that crashes upon the shores of existence."

"I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye."

"The animal inside me was as real as the divine."

"Belief is powerful in its simplicity and complexity."