The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

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.

People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

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