“The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.”

“I do not know much about this man [Jesus], but I do know that his whole life conveys one message: 'anyone at any moment can start a new future.”

“هكذا يخرب كل من البنك الدولي، وصندوق النقد الدولي نصف الكرة الأرضية الجنوبي منذ عشرين عاما، من الأرجنتين إلى تنزانيا، ومن باكستان إلى الفلبين، وبدءوا الآن في تطبيق نفس الأسلوب في دول الشرق.”

“We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.”

“By living in a spirit of forgiveness we not only uphold the core value of citizenship but also find the path to social membership that we need. Happiness does not come from the pursuit of pleasure, nor is it guaranteed by freedom, it comes from sacrifice. That is the message of the Christian religion and it is the message that is conveyed by all the memorable works of our culture. It is the message that has been lost in the noise of repudiation, but which it seems to me can be heard once again if we devote our energies to retrieving it. And in the christian tradition the primary act of sacrifice is forgiveness. The one who forgives sacrifices vengeance and renounces thereby a part of himself for the sake of another.”

“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.”

“We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.”