If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

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.

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.]

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.