"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."

“Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I'm happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I would have liked that Federer could have won the Grand Slam, because I think he's a phenomenal player. For me, he is the player I enjoy watching the most.”

“The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.”

“I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, but I was also learning how to manipulate computers.”

“The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom.”

Source : "Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel". www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2015.

“Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.”

“Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.”

“Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.”

Source : "Christian Worldview". Interview with Julia Duin, www.washingtontimes.com. July 03, 2003.

“I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.”