A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

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.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

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

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.