Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

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.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.