My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

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].

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.