Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

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.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.