If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.

To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.