For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

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

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.