Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.