Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.