Every moment is a new beginning.

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

If anyone had told us in 1945 that there are certain battles we'll have to fight again we wouldn't have believed it. Racism, anti-Semitism, starvation of children and, who would have believed that? At least I was convinced then, naively, that at least something happened in history that, because of myself, certain things cannot happen again.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

Every moment is a new beginning.