A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

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

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

[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.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

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

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

If you are number 2 or 3 and you are ok with that, then you are ready to be number one and everybody is ok with that.

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.