"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals"

"Music is my religion"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite"

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people"

"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall"

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins"