I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

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

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.