Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?.

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to ….

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool..

[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, ….

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

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

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business..

A heap of bricks is not yet a house..

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak..

Time is change, transformation, evolution..

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction..

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, th….

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

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

The worst dog gets the best bone..

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

The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds ….

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

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins..

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby..

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen..