We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

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

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.