You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.