I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

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.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.