Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes ... Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.