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!

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

The worst dog gets the best bone.

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

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

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

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.