As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.