The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.

It takes two men to make one brother.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

New York is the great stone desert.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Pure heart begets pure body, soul and spirit.

Family is a fortress.

You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.

My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true