Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.