I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
What nature creates has eternity in it.
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.
When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.