No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

Questions outlive the answers.

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

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