The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

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

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.