In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.