From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.