If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

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.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.