After all, God is God because he remembers.

If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

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

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

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

Some stories are true that never happened.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.