Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

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

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

Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.

And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!

Somebody's girlfriend," she said. "Somebody's sister, somebody's daughter. All these things I never knew I was before, and I still don't really know what I am.

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

Life is short. Eat dessert first.

Experience is only half of experience.

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.