“Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”

“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”

“He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.”

“It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.”

“Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.”

“Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.”

“I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.”