It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. – Blaise Pascal
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. – Blaise Pascal
It is superstitious to put ones hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. – Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal
My Botswana books are positive, and Ive never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative. – Alexander McCall Smith