[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

Whoso loves, believes in the impossible

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.

You only live once and, usually, not even then.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.