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.]

When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

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.

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

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.