I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

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

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

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.