Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.
Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.
I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.