I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

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

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.