People Author Desire Night Jewish 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
Knowledge What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. - Elie Wiesel
Life Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. - Elie Wiesel
Wrong Faith No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. - Elie Wiesel
Hope God Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. - Elie Wiesel
Beginning There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. - Elie Wiesel
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references. - Jim Hodges
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. - Gerald R. Ford
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen