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 basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

The rich are always afraid.