It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.