Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

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

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.