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

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

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.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

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