Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.