To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

Old saws have no teeth.

What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

Time at length becomes justice.