It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Every human, is capable of animalistic behavior. But for God, human abode will be a wild desert with untamed animals

If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within.

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

Does the devil know he is a devil?

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.