Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

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.

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.