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.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

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