did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.