Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

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.

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.