I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

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

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

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