I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.