Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.