Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

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.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.