Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.