The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.

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.

You and your reality are ONE. When YOU change, everything changes.

Never stop loving while living, when you stop loving, you stop living.

We explore to experience, we eat to live and we hate to love

I have not yet begun to fight!

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.