“The divisions in our world are not a result of religious or of culture, but are politically based. There is an imbalance of power in the world and the powerless are beginning to challenge the hegemony fohte Great power.”

“A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.”

“Somentimes challenging and different and risky is what makes life worth living.”

“If questioning would make us wise no eyes would ever gaze in eyes; if allof our tale were told in speech, no mouth would wonder each to each.Were spirits free from mortal mesh and love not bound to hearts of flesh noaching breast would earn to meet and find their ecstasy complete.For who is there that lives and knows the secret powers by which he grows?Were knowledge all, what were our need to thrill and faint and sweetlybleed?Then not seek, sweet, the “If” and “Why” I love you until I die. For I mustlove because I live And life in me is what you give.”

“By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.”

“Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.”

“Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from the sad world of adults.”