Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty tempting opportunities of experimenting with identities - being one kind of person today and a different the next day. On the other hand, there is little pressure to include the ethnic identity or religious identity into this mechanism, because now everybody is in a kind of Diaspora today.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.