It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

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.

When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not adamant!

I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .

God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.

Be humble, or you'll stumble.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.