The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.