We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Life without commitment is not worth living.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.