The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

I never knew how much I missed pickles and pickle juice. It's like, an overwhelming feeling that I can't even explain.

The Lord shall be your comfort in times of distress.

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

About 97% of the media is created by men.

Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.