For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

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.

God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.