It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.

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

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

I was never without a book in my hand.

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

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference