... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.

A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

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.