I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

The danger lies in forgetting.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.