Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.