Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of The Book in the truest sense of the word. They knew of no greater joy than the study of man and human relations, which they called Torah, Talmud, Mussar, Cabala.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.