Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

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

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.