Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.