Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.