Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.