There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

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.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?