There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

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.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.