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

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

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 blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!