Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

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.]

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.