A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

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

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.

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.