But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. To be brothers, to live in peace, we do not have to be overly similar. We don't have to admire or even like one another's peculiarities. We need only respect those peculiarities - and to be grateful for them. Our similarities provide us with a common ground, but our differences allow us to be fascinated by one another.
Differences give human encounters their snap and their fizz and their brew.
There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always been the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil - we can only evict it, force it to move across town for while. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it.