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 majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.