What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

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.