The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.