[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

The worst dog gets the best bone.

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

A people's memory is history and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.