If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Everybody is somebody's Jew.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! Life flies

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.