Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.