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.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.