[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.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

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

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

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

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

Time is change, transformation, evolution.