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.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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.