In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

Oliver reached up for my hand and led me back into the living room area. “Can we try something?” I rolled my eyes. “Do I really have a choice?”“You always have a choice, Novi, ” Oliver said.

If I wanted to consume something that looks and tastes like dirt, I’d eat dirt, ” I said, “at least dirt isn’t overpriced."~Beans~

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.

Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.