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.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.