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

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.

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

The worst dog gets the best bone.

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

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

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