“Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.”

“Few doctrines throughout History have been able to eradicate hatred, most of them have simply tried to deflect it from one object to another: to the infidel, the foreigner, the apostate, the master, the slave, the father. Naturally, hatred is only called hatred when we see it in others; the hatred which is in ourselves bears a thousand different names.”

“For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.”

“The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.”

“are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?”

“Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.”

“Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?”