Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

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.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?