I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

When you fall in love with someone you treasure their quirks as much as anything else. Flaws become unique marks of character, things you'd miss if they weren't there.

Negative thoughts crashed the spirit, weaken the soul and make the body sick.

To shut your eyes is to travel.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

Never let your fiend off his leash unless there's lots of room to run (and no people around).

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

ignore the pain, play through it.