[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.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

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

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

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.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.