I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.