Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.