The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

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

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

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

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

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