I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

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.

Laissez faire laissez passer.

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.

. . . distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest.

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

Live with a purpose, play with a purpose.