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

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

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.

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. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.