You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].
How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?