The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait...

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

The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side.

After trampling over many bodies and corpses, we succeeded in getting inside. We let ourselves fall to the ground.

From Jeff Greenfield: I once asked Elie Wiesel Are you an optimist or a pessimist? An optimist, he said. I have to be.

Judge God. He created the universe and made justice stem from injustices. He brought it about that a people should attain happiness through tears, that the freedom of a nation, like that of a man, should be a monument built upon a pile, a foundation of dead bodies…

All right, I told myself. I'll also have to learn to eat. And to love. You can learn anything.