Dear Friends,
Thank you very much for your congratulations and good wishes for the awarding of the Templeton Prize. For me the prize is not a personal award, but an honor for our entire country, especially for those who have been my moral and intellectual inspirations and guides; for my teachers, who showed their bravery and endurance in the battle for a free culture and faith and who themselves did not live to see freedom and their own awards.
I would like to use the authority that the Templeton Prize confers upon me to increase the culture of dialogue in ...
