The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

"Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.