You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

I'm very pessimistic.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.