Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

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

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.