But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.