“If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.”

“That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”

“We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed. We so want our pictures to paint differently than they do.”

“We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.”

“We have to start doing this in ignorance of the details of how to do it. We have to learn how to do it in the attempt itself. It is something we are going to have to imagine.”

“It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.”