Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.