[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

The worst dog gets the best bone.

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

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!

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

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

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.