A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.