Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be the hearth everyone turns to for warmth.

If you practise deceit it will burrow down into dark places and change you. Spoken by Boaz to his daughter, Star.

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

If you believe you can read you can

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.