One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

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.

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

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

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