198 Quotes by Chaim Potok

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it’s certainly present in the early work.

I’ve never known of a serious artist who was happy. Except maybe Rubens.

Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.

Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone.

To remember is not a punishment, Asher. To remember is a victory against the sitra achra, against Hitler, may his name be erased. The film is a sanctification of the name of God. Why should I not participate in it?

I’m not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that’s the way the world is.

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy – every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. – BEN JONSON.