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

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

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

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

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

[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.