“When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.”

“As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.”

“Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.”

“The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.”

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”

“thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you.”

“We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.”