[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

Questions outlive the answers.