I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

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