Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.