In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.