People Author Words Truth Night Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. - Elie Wiesel
Life Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. - Elie Wiesel
Peace God Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. - 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
Friendship Life Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. - Elie Wiesel
Injustice May Time There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. - Henrik Ibsen
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. - Rem Koolhaas
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. - Vincent Schiavelli