It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.