What pains and hurts me most is the simultaneity of events. While we seat here and discuss how to behave morally, both individually and collectively, over there, in Darfur:human beings kill and die. Should the Sudanese victims feel abandoned and neglected, it would be our fault - and perhaps our guilt. That's why we must intervene. If we do, our children and their children will be grateful for us. As will be, through them, our own.

It is the Committee's opinion that Elie Wiesel has emerged as one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and ra…

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.