Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Do not waste your life hating. Let your life glow in love.

I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.

We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.