The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Don't be ashamed for lack of knowledge. The real crime is having but not using it

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.

Religion is a tool used by wicked people to twist other people into doing the things they want them to do".

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

...evoking memories, particularly of days gone by.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.