The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

All actual life is encounter.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.