It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

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