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

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

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.

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?

Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

Where you don’t see pure love, there is indeed no path to moksha [ultimate liberation] there. Where there is a fee, there is no pure love there!

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one

Your body is your body it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.

I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.