Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

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

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in 'Metal Gear Solid 3.' But you cannot eat turtles.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.