When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

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.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Until slow and steady could win the race, being fast and speedier can bring no further grace

they'd become unaccustomed to the brightness of their own city, and, faced with it now in all its intensity, they cupped their hands over their eyes as if staring into the sun.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.