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.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

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

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.