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If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.
It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.
I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.
I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.
I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.
It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.
[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.