For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

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

I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.