If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.

I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.

you cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing; you have no conviction of truth unless you have already apprehended it intuitively.

If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.

For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.