What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

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

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.