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.

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

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

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.

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.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

You must not hide the gifts God has given, but use them in his service

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

Everything that is now easy for you was once hard in the beginning