A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.