No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

People fear witches, and burn women.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.