I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

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

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.