When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

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

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.

[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.