Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

When adults wage war, children perish.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.

For me, every hour is grace.