Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.