[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

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.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.