In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

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.

Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.

I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

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