 Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. |
| Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. |
| I write to understand as much as to be understood. |
| Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. |
| Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. |
| A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. |
| There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. |
| Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. |
| Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. |
| There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. |
| I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. |
| Some stories are true that never happened. |
| Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. |
| Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Topics: Friendship |
| Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. |
| Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. |
| I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. |
| Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. |
| That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. |
| What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. |
