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

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.

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

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.