There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

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.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

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.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.