I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Every moment is a new beginning.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .