Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.