Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
Elie WieselMankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Elie Wiesel[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.
Elie Wiesel[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.
Elie Wiesel