To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Loneliness is only sweet to a man if it rids him of presences irksome and unwanted, and it is no longer sweet when the beloved presences are discovered.
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
We must have hope or starve to death.
Hope must come out of what we have, or it is not hope, but a dream.
The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.
He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love.
It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
He was
When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.
The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.
Mind and body were well or ill together.
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
But the boy only muttered bitterly,
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bl...
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me were buried there, and now it is a different life in my house.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.