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

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.