Quote of the Day (Elie Wiesel, on Adam and How It Is ‘Given to Man to Begin Again’)

“It is not given to man to begin; that privilege is God's alone. But it is given to man to begin again—and he does so every time he chooses to defy death and side with the living.  Thus he justifies the ancient plan of the most ancient of men, Adam, to whom we are bound both by the anguish that oppressed him and the defiance that elevated him above the paradise we shall never enter.”—Romanian-born American Jewish Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor and human-rights activist Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends (1976)