Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.