Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.