To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.