I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

And I, the for­mer mys­tic, was think­ing: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve de­ceived You, You chased them from par­adise. When You were dis­pleased by Noah’s generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your fa­vour, You caused the heav­ens to rain down fire and damna­tion. But look at these men whom You have be­trayed, al­low­ing them to be tortured, slaugh­tered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray be­fore You! They praise Your name!

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.