Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.

I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.