Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.