Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

Some stories are true that never happened.

I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.