"It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet"

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one"

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act"

"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass"

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them"

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

"A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing"