“No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz.”

“Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?"And the answer: "Where was man?”

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

“A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.”

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”

“And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...”