“I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.”

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.

Depression is a choice.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I – and probably a lot of other feminists – wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value – it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.

I’ve done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn’t been the best career choice, but it’s been a really great life choice.

I’d rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

When you choose to perceive Love over fear, life begins to flow.