That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.