If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

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 don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

Now 4th street park after dark is dangerous, might get clapped, if you look strange to us

I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

Thinking is the highest form of leverage.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.