There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Every 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?