[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.

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

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

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.