Sholem Asch Quotes

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Personality is the gland of creativity.

Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.