If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.