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

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

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

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.

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

The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.

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