Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

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

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

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!