Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
I never teach the same course twice.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
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.
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
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.
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.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.