No human being is illegal.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

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.

My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.