How can a human being be illegal?

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.