I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

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

Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

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