The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.

My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.