Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

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.

The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live at all.

Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.