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.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

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