My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

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

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

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

The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.