Elie Wiesel

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. ”

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. ”

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. ”

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. ”

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine. ”

Peace is our gift to each other. ”

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. ”

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

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. ”