The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.