The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

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.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

How can a human being be illegal?

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.