Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

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

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.