Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.