I'm much too modest a person.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.