You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

Madness is no madness when shared.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings and the long-awaited ability to see their families... In short, suffering. No one complained, though! They kept repeating: we are so grateful for the care taken of our safety, for feeling. They were ready to surrender a good deal of their human dignity, individuality, freedom of choice.

I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.