A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.