'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.