Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love ris... - Elie Wiesel

"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."

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

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

"A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake."

"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."