[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.

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

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

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

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

Time is change, transformation, evolution.