“Life without commitment is not worth living.”

Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.

There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair

Prayer begins where our power ends.

Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.

People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;

That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Ian MacKaye was in London while I was living there. We both decided that even though we had very different lifestyles.

But when I would write a story – I know it’s going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile – I would, in a way, start living it.

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.

We’re all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we’re just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.