The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

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

A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

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