I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

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.

Be with someone who willingly runs in the storm with you, not someone who cowers away because of turbulent winds.

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.

In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

Only in failure do you reach success. You can only get to the good stuff when you've done the hard stuff.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.