It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.