Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.

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

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.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.