It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.