Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.