"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."

"Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history."

"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."

"There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

"There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth."

"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."

"Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity."