Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.
Elie WieselHe explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Elie WieselLook, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
Elie WieselMy good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.
Elie Wiesel