There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.

You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.

Hillary Clinton is the least popular candidate for president ever except for Donald Trump.

Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.

To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)