"True innovation is born when curiosity dares to question long-settled assumptions. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In the depths of adversity, kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."

"It is a enduring truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."

"I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure."