Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.