Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.