The island cried out to me. I longed to feast my senses on its light and air, and restore my spirit with its peace. If I answered its call, soon enough I would live again in the familiar rhythms of it...
No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved my country [Australia], I barely knew it. I'd spent so many years studying the art of our...
You cannot right injustice by injustice.
Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.
David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
You know that your church has always taken a view on these matters very different from ours, from the day that the first printing press was assembled. Your church did not want your holy scriptures in...
This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.
There's a word a friend of mine coined for that feeble gesture we make as if we're going to hold the door, when in reality we've got no intention of it. He calls it to elefain.
I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.
I do not ask for your abosolution. I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to so the go...
Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.
Aryeh looked, and his head became light. How could he have not seen? The earth on which the Almighty created the plants and the animals—in each and every illumination, it was shown as an orb. That the...
A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.
Used personal and place-names in their transliteration
[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story.
They argued that women of the prophet’s era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The
Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only. And so distant, up there in the sky. I do not have to look so far. I can see my skygod clear en...