Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world or something different from it?'

Has it ever happened to you that you actually like a rogue more than a so-called honest citizen? Have you ever wondered why? I believe that this can only be so because a rogue is more original and more his own. He is what he is.

History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.

It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.

Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.

Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.

Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.