I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.