Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.