Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

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.

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

[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.

When we fall in love, we recognise in the other the fragments of ourselves that we have lost.

Time heals even the deepest wounds.

If life were perfect, we would never learn anything. Thus, never appreciate life.

If you put the time and work into getting better therefore that is called practice, anything that you practice you will definitely get better.

If you're heartless, try not to steal someone else's

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.