The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is “Thank You,” then that will be enough.
Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
Love makes everything complicated.
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.