The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.