Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

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

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.