Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

Every moment is a new beginning.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.