First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.