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

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

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.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.