More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

In code, it never pays to rush.

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.