The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

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 we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.