When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

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

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

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.