God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.