The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.