Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.

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

Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.