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

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

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!

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

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

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

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