When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

What I do, I want to do with all my being.

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

Not to remember is not an option.

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.