I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.