The Road To The Sacred Leads Through

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.

When I Was Young, I Admired Clever People. Now That I Am Old, I Admire Kind People.

When I Marched With Martin Luther King In Selma, I Felt My Legs Were Praying.

One Of The Major Symptoms Of The General Crisis Existent In Our World Today Is Our Lack Of Sensitivity To Words. We Use Words As Tools. We Forget That Words Are A Repository Of The Spirit. The Tragedy Of Our Times Is That The Vessels Of The Spirit Are Broken. We Cannot Approach The Spirit Unless We Repair The Vessels. Reverence For Words - An Awareness Of The Wonder Of Words, Of The Mystery Of Words - Is An Essential Prerequisite For Prayer. By The Word Of God The World Was Created.

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.