No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

The world invited me many places.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.