The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.