Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. – Elie Wiesel
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in Night. I questioned Gods silence. So I questioned. I dont have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. – Elie Wiesel
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. – Elie Wiesel
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. – Elie Wiesel
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, thats its not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain –if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it. – Richard Milhous Nixon