I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?