[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.

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"!

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

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

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?

Unless and until you give happiness to others you truly cannot be happy.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?

I want a girl that can swallow my pride.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

Good health is the most important thing. More than success. More than money. More than power.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

There's a common saying that everybody deep at heart loves their mother, except sometimes we decide our actual mothers don't measure up. And so we look for a replacement.

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.