"We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips."

-- Peter Claver

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“Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.”
“The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.”

Source : "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.
“A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.”
“You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.”
“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

Source : "Dick Cavett Show", PBS, July 17, 1978.
“The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.”
“My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.”
“Everyone said, 'Yeah, you can do it, you can qualify.' But it wasn't something that I actually believed I could do. Even now, I definitely understand and know I'm going to the Olympics, but I don't think it will fully sink in until I'm actually there and experiencing it.”

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