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.

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

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.