We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Read Summary
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. Read Summary
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. Read Summary
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. Read Summary
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Read Summary
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Read Summary
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. Read Summary
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Read Summary
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. Read Summary
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. Read Summary
For me, every hour is grace. Read Summary
If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope. Read Summary
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. Read Summary
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. Read Summary
I write to understand as much as to be understood. Read Summary
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. Read Summary
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. Read Summary
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction. Read Summary