Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.