Elie Wiesel

After all, God is God because he remembers.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

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

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

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.

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.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.