What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

For me, every hour is grace.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.