Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

'I'll be back' always sounded a little girly to me.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

War kills men and men deplore the loss, but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants and so saves societies.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Purple haze, all in my brain, lately things just don't seem the same,

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