A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?