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.

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

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.