Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.