Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

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