In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I had read how difficult it was for her to get pregnant. "Grandma! I have news for you!" "What did you learn?" "I have news, Grandma: Sarah is pregnant!" [Genesis 16 - 21].

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.