You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not approaching it from the scientific point of view. I'm saying: Why do we need that? It's a sordid story, a depressing story, a dark story. Why should I believe that I'm a descendant of either Cain or Abel? Thank God there is a third son! [Genesis 4:25]

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

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?

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.