In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...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.