Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.