"In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame."

"I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't."

"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

"In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society."

"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."

"The groves were God's first temples."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

"In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul."