you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

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.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

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

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.