I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

I love moving. I love new houses. I'm always looking for somewhere else.

Kosovians can move back in.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.