Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.