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.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.