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.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

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.