One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

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

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

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.