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

I believe in free will. I have no choice.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

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