I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.