“A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a quest...” — Elie Wiesel Quote

“A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.”

“For me, every hour is grace.”

“Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.”

“After all, God is God because he remembers.”

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

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

“...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.”

“No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.”

“Say what you want about organized religion, but man, they make cool windows.”

“Assim é, mas a vantagem da igreja é que, embora às vezes o não pareça, ao gerir o que está no alto, governa o que está em baixo.”

“Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.”