Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

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.

Love teaches a good person to do bad and a bad person to do good.

Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

Without electricity, there can be no art.

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.