We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.