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.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.