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

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

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

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

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!

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

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