Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.