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.

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

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.

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

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

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.

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.