We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

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

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")

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

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.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.