Elie Wiesel

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

Change • Parenting • Responsibility

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Mortality

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Anger • Faith • Relationships

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

Friendship • Love • Relationships

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Gratitude • Joy

Peace is our gift to each other.

Gifts • Peace • Relationships

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

Cooperation • Human • Peace

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Accountability • Religion • Responsibility

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Attitude • Gratitude • Human

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Knowledge • Mystery • Philosophy

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

Beliefs • Faith • Religion

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Art • Faith • Life

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

God • Human • Relationships

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Despair • Hope • Human

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

Death • Grief • Loss

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Culture • Education • Tradition