I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.