One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Do not wait for a coronation

Nothing remains the same.The only thing that never changesis the fact that everything changes.

A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)

All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.

What if living your life, naturally created what you wanted?

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.

I don't really party.