Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

Use your wish, ” I whisper to Aladdin, opening my eyes. “Please.”“If I do, ” he replies softly, “I’ll lose you.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Here is the one truth you know for sure: there is no truth for sure.

You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.

Um, I don't know, really [about my future.]