What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.