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" Some stories are true that never happened. "

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" I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine. "

" Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. "

" I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. "

" I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it. "

" I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. "

" I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. "

" Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. "

" That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. "

" Peace is our gift to each other. "

" For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. "

" There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. "

" No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. "

" Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. "

" Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. "

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

" That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. "

" I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. "

" I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. "

" I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. "

" Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. "

" I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. "

" When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from. "

" One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious. "

" There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. "

" It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. "

" In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. "

" When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world. "

" I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics. "

" I love teaching. "

" There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. "