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

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.