I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?