Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.