Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

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.

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

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

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Most of what you do to fulfill God’s purposes will require acts of faith.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

So you see, you can't do everything alone.

Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Bigger than the Beatles? Well, how many grammys did they win? Exactly, none, yet I have one, and I've never even released a CD.