Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all hav….

God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions..

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that ….

A Marxist has never written a good novel..

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do..

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature..

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law an….

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins..

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood..

If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this rega….

Life is God's novel. Let him write it..

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appr….

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop..

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything..

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment..

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions..

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our accoun….

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor….

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher o….

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression..

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world..