The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

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

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world