Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. |
Look at these towers, passerby, and try to imagine what they really mean – what they symbolize – what they evoke. |
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. |
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. |
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. |
Never have the relations between Jews and Catholics been as good. |
Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, ... Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. |
Night. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me. |
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. |
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. |
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. |
Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. |
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. |
On a strictly military level, the operation is a success. For that, and for his brave decision to pursue peace even at present political cost, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon deserves praise. But starting now, Israelis and Palestinians must face the question: What next? |
once a refugee, always a refugee. |