Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.