Elie Wiesel

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

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.
-Elie Wiesel

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
-Elie Wiesel

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
-Elie Wiesel

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

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
-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