I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

I remember one day I came home and shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, Sarah is pregnant!" Poor Sarah! For weeks before I had read how difficult it was for her to get pregnant. "Grandma! I have news for you!" "What did you learn?" "I have news, Grandma: Sarah is pregnant!" [Genesis 16 - 21].