A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Every little deed counts.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

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

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

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.