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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Life was a lot more adventurous before caller I.D.

The streets were dark with something more then night.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.