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!

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

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

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

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

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.