You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

A novel is a map of the human heart, a guide to the depths of our emotions

In my own view, Hamas’ disappointment gets from an absence of legitimization by Israel and by a great part of the world. It is this disappointment that leads them to such ruinous urgency. That is the reason we have to give them status as a real adversary – before we talk about an understanding or, on the other hand, about a frontal war.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.

Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they’ll behave. You want people to believe in God so they’ll obey the law. That’s the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English – up to fifty words used in correct context – no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain—that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design. … This may be called the cunning of reason.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development, physically or intellectually, without effort; and effort means work.

There are people who are too intelligent to ever be classified as human.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

For the record, every time I laughed at one of your jokes, I was faking it

You don’t need a patch on your arm to have honor.

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.