My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.
Elie WieselThis is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
Elie WieselEven if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
Elie WieselEvery nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?
Elie Wiesel