Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

God made human beings because he loves stories.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for -- for people who have faith should speak up.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.

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.

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like -- free at last!

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

I remember when I heard the words Biblical criticism in my town, it was with disdain: Biblical criticism? How dare you?

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

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

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.