There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

The only constant in this reality is change...

To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!

Only silence perfects silence.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.