I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction--the Messiah.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.