Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the. . . most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand.
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.