We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

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.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.