We have a chance in the future only if we take our own responsibility. Not anyone else come to give us good.

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.

We can not have a future without respecting our past.

The most important things to be acquired for freedom and democracy, are identity and dignity.

I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening.

An imaginative person can be spiritual but can't be religious.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.

When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.

I'm the little fat cruiser weight, write me off at your peril.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.