Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.

No human being is illegal.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.