“Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.”

“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.”

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.”

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

“Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.”

“Peace is our gift to each other.”

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