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

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

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves