Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.