"God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency."

"In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel."

"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."

"A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity."

"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."