First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks. Thus we best prepare by building our inner strength by sound philosophy, by reaching out to others, by asking ourselves what matters most.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Insensitivity brings indifference and nothing is worse than indifference. Indifference makes that person dead before the person dies.

When my town shall fade into the abyss of time, I will continue to remember the light and the warmth it radiated on Shabbat

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations, not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

I understood his bitterness; indeed I envied it. He was losing a friend, and it hurt.

The only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is homecoming.

One doesn't go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That's one of its mysteries.

Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.