Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

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

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference