But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

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.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.