“If Frau Rasch, in the last and fullest days of her husband’s power in Brno, had idly—during a party, say; a musical recital at the castle—gazed into the core of the diamond that had come to her from Oskar Schindler, she would have seen reflected there the worst incubus from her own dreams and her Führer’s. An armed Marxist Jew.”
“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
“Era un vers din Talmud: ”Cel care salvează o singură viață, salvează întreaga lume.”
“Lista este viața. De jur-împrejurul marginilor ei scorojite se deschide prăpastia.”
“Vina e un vis, mila e singura realitate.”
“Tout le monde voulait être dans le coup ce jour-là. Car, ce jour-là, on allait écrire l'Histoire avec un grand H. Il y avait eu un ghetto à Cracovie pendant plus de sept siècles, et voici qu'à la fin de la journée, ou au plus tard le lendemein, ces sept siècles ne seraient plus qu'une rumeur, et Cracovie serait enfin fiduciare (débarrassée des juifs).”