To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.