A word is worth a thousand pictures.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.