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

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

We need to listen to one another.

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

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

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.