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.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Self-respect is the root of discipline