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

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

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

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.

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

Invest in yourself. You can afford it. Trust me.

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout.

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

And he was gone before she could think clearly enough to explain that her yes was a Yes, I'll marry you.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.