Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

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

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.