Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?
The worst dog gets the best bone.
[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.