Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.