The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

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

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.