It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

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

Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .