I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

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.

You reproduce your life by reproducing your gifts and your talents.

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human

What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.