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

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

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.

"Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)