I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

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.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.