From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.