For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Everybody is somebody's Jew.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.

The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.

With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.