I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

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.

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.