Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through th….

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves ….

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain m….

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless again….

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness..

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way..

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone..

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within..

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making..

Truth is its own defense..

There is no thermometer for wants!.

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.

Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity..

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long..

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar ….

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more ….

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it..

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it..