During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of agood party!

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.

I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.

To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.

I … noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.