I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Think higher, feel deeper.

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.