Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

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.