There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.
In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.
Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
What I do, I want to do with all my being.
The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.