The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”
“There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.”