Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

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.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.