Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

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.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

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.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.