I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.