I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.