The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.