I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.