To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.