“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.”

“The first requisite for immortality is death.”

“He who limps is still walking.”

“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”

“Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.”

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

“We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them,...”

“The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvag...”

“Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?”