If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

It is ultimately your choices that decide your destiny.

Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

Gentlemen, start your engines!

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.