There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. |
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. |
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. |
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others. |
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. |
We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers know that they are not alone. |
We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn from our history. |
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. |
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. |
When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t |
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. |
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. |