Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.